With the deep starting stacks of 45,000 chips and low blinds there hasn’t been all that much action so far. Most pots go something along the lines of one player raising to 600, another player or two calling preflop, someone betting on the flop and everyone else folding. The players seem impressed with [...]

After being as low as 7,800 today, Matt “All In At 420″ Stout (left) was able to rally and finish with 56,000. He is still well behind the chip leaders who come in at over 500k, but he at least has a fighting chance. Matt was able to chip up in a limped [...]

Bryan “bparis” Paris and Matt “plattsburgh” Vengrin (pictured at right) recently got into a hand together. With the blinds at 150/300 Bryan raised to 900 and Matt called from the button. The flop came A22 and both players checked. The turn brought the 8 and both players again checked. The K fell on the river and [...]

Because play ended last night in the $2k NLHE event #48 right after the bubble burst, the “all-in fest” that usually occurs immediately following was saved for today. Less than 30 minutes after play began two tables had already been broken and David “ComptonMasta” Barter and Matt “plattsburgh” Vengrin are amongst the early casualties.
Bryan “Devo” [...]

Matt “plattsburgh” Vengrin was recently eliminated from the PLO8 tournament about 20 players short of making the money. Vengrin (pictured left) had been nursing a short stack for some time now. We’ve seen players often stack their chips in a pyramid shape, but Vengrin had so few in front of him that his pyramid of [...]